Just the scratch pad here...

Themes to touch on:
  • What is "expertise" mean /value in internet age?
  • Understanding / appreciating / pop culture
  • Personal / cognitive / internet overload
  • Online facilitation, enablers, in virtual space, in blog space, in

All I Needed To Know I Learned ...


a play on Robert Fulghum (some mock book covers)
  • "I Know Nothing" (I am not an expert...) reference to Sgt Schulz on Hogan's Hero's
    • tangent to trivia on Hogan's Hero's learned in Wikipedia (several actors were Jewish, Holocaust survivors); what's not there is the lcoation where actor Bob Crane was murdered is 1/2 mile from my home (photo of apartment). There is some thread here
  • "Everything He Says is a Lie" / "I am Telling the Truth" Harry Mudd conundrum
  • "All I Needed to Know About the Internet, I Learned on the Internet"
    • I have no formal training in programming, and technology I use. Yet I learn every day, get no credits for it, no advanced degrees
    • Some more examples and ideas on what some call "informal" learning, the massive amount that is going on outside the walls of academia
  • Some tangent to technology and human behavior- keeping in mind what everyone's favorite subject is
  • Pop Culture references
    • what people in difference eras share in common
    • in my parent's day, it might have been a riff on "Who's on First?" or (almost means nothing to me)
    • I am a product of TV pop culture (bring references to 70s tv shows, SNL skits - desert AND a floor wax, MTV) yet these remain meaningless to today's youth
    • What do pop culture references buy you? (connectivity, commonality) - but they should never obscure the message, only augment for those on the same wavelength
    • Pop Culture and Mashups (Monty Trek) how long will this be meaningful?
    • Pull in some references linkages to Steven Johnson's "Everything That is Bad for you..."
  • "Everything I Learned About Blogging I Learned While... Blogging"
    • Some tidbits, examples to illustrate that it's an experiential in terms of learning
  • "Everything I Learned About Online Facilitating I Learned While... Online Facilitating"
    • Lessons from Maricopa. Alfredo de los Santos "Just get people together in a room, get out of the way" / Alfredo's questions
    • What it means in Second Life
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